Language Quote by Anton Chekhov

“It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.”

— G. K. Chesterton

“The world of numbers and words is odd. A number is the only word that doesn’t lie and words can be very deceitful; they…

— Dejan Stojanovic

However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer…

— J. L. Austin

In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.'

— Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza

“We are not told, or not told early enough so that it sinks in, that mathematics is a language, and that we can learn…

— Mortimer J. Adler

You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.

— Larry Wall

The development of mathematics towards greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one…

— Kurt Gödel

Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.

— John Maynard Smith

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with a straight…

— Susan Jacoby

“The only thing that words can do with any real precision or accuracy is hang together. Accuracy of description in language is not possible…

— Northrop Frye

Language is a machine for making falsehoods.

— Iris Murdoch